Publilius Syrus Quotes - Page 8

An intemperate patient makes a harsh doctor.

Other people's things are more pleasing to us, and ours to other people. -Aliena nobis, nostra plus aliis placent

When you are in love you are not wise; or, when you are wise you are not in love.

Fortune is never satisfied with bringing one sorrow.

He bids fair to grow wise who has discovered that he is not so.

The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.

A loss, of which we are ignorant, is no loss.

Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

A suspicious mind always looks on the black side of things.

The little vices of the great must needs be accounted very great.

He sleeps well who knows not that he sleeps ill.

When reason rules, money is a blessing.

A man suffers death himself as often as he loses those dear to him.

What valor cannot win, flattery may.

He who boasts of a favor bestowed, would like it back again.

It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.

Vices that are familiar we pardon, and only new ones reprehend.

When two do the same thing, it is not the same thing after all.

He is a despicable sage whose wisdom does not profit himself.

Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it. -David Richo A rolling stone can gather no moss

Nothing can be done quickly and prudently at the same time.

The poor lack much, the greedy everything.

Unless you bear with the faults of a friend you betray your own.

He who will not grant a favour has no right to ask one.

There is no gain so certain as that which arises from sparing what you have.